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When I first found out about the airport shooting I was so scared, but relieved that my Grandma’s flight got canceled that day because if not, she would have been in that shooting that day and who knows what terrible thing could have occurred. 

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Future Self Video

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Personal Journal-What are you looking forward to the most heading into 9th grade?

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Personal Journal-What are you looking forward to the most heading into 9th grade?

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Going into high school, I would have to say I’m looking the most forward to meeting new students, teachers, and some new classes. I have always loved interacting with new faces at school because I have attended American Heritage for the past 10 years, and I feel that it has given me the confidence to walk across campus and know where everything is and how to get there. I’m also looking forward to learning new subjects such as geography, biology, and business law. American Heritage has been my home for what feels like forever now, and I have already prepared myself for how sad it will be when I graduate, and take one step closer by going into high school. I now know that now is the time when grades are going to be taken seriously, I will be more active in sports and clubs, and etc. To be completely honest, I’m tired of 8th grade and ready to start a new chapter in my life, but I will for sure miss all my wonderful teachers that have taught me so much this past year, and quite frankly, have been the best teachers I have ever had from my years at AHS. I’m so grateful to be attending an extraordinary school with the people I’ve grown and matured with, and ready to tackle 9th grade with them too.

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I visited Hershey, Pennsylvania in December of 2021. This was my first time ever seeing snow in person and feeling how cold it was. 

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My real description of 2020 was this meme, and I think many people can relate to it as well.

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Within the past month or so, and finishing off the school year, I have been assigned more projects for my classes, than in my entire lifetime at AHS. There are about 1-3 new projects or so every week, and as much as it is an easy A, it’s very exhausting to keep doing projects!

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A few years ago, I was in Texas visiting my baby cousins at the time, and my aunt captured this photo, and it has been since known as “the iconic photo of the Bolock and Bishop cousins”!

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In early August, my family and I went to Discovery Cove in Orlando Florida. We all swam with the dolphins, fed the birds, and went snorkeling. It was also my first time swimming with dolphins and it was truly an amazing experience! 

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Boats and boating--Equipment and supplies

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2022 Christmas Photo Shoot in November. 

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Family Interview #2-How have you felt in the past 2 years through the course of dealing with Covid, quarantine, and the vaccine roll out?

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Family Interview #2-How have you felt in the past 2 years through the course of dealing with Covid, quarantine, and the vaccine roll out?

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“Were orchestrated poorly, government did a bad job based on data”

“Places had quarantine that were more strict than other locations.”

“Cases higher in some places”

“More relaxed quarantine rules in florida”

“Vaccine proved to be minimally affect” “strongly against it”

“Roll out of the programs of Government were horribly executed.”

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Family Interview #1-What is your opinion on the economic world right now?

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Family Interview #1-What is your opinion on the economic world right now?

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It’s in disaster mode”

“Food prices, commodity prices arising, supply changes disrupted. Inflation out of control. There is still a war going on.”

“The federal reserve can’t keep up with inflation”

Have to watch what to spend, such as food and gas, and is hurtling people’s investments and mine. “

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I have always loved to help out in the kitchen, but over Covid, I really loved to find recipes and make things of my own. And shockingly, when I make my dishes, they become “a hit” each time. 

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Every weekend my parents will tell me, “oh you will feel great on Monday and fully energized after the weekend”. All day on Monday, I’m doing what the meme explains. 

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The night of the Oscar’s in 2022, was a night to remember forever. Will Smith slapping Chris Rock made the news within hours and was the hot topic for the week. In addition, it was also the most talked about event as school the next day. I was honestly just shocked that they allowed this on camera, and that Will Smith walked up on that stage and slapped a comedian in front of the live television and all the people in the audience. 

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Over quarantine there wasn’t much to do because everything was shut down due to the virus. So one thing that I would turn to would be Netflix, and I had always seen Grey’s Anatomy on my “recommended for you”, but I never considered to watch it until we were in lock down.  

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I chose this headline because, I live in parkland and our community tried to help each other out in any way possible in that horrible time. My family and I were impacted by this shooting as we could have almost lost a very close friend whom attended the school, but thankfully, she is alive and well in college at NYU. 

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Front row seats at the softball game in Tallahassee.  

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I recently visited the Florida State University in Tallahassee and toured the whole college campus. I saw the athletic stadiums, and went to a Florida State vs. Florida Gators softball game for the first time. 

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Before I lost my championship, I would think that losing would just make you sad and want to work harder, because winning was the goal. But then once I saw this quote from Jennie Finch, a famous softball pitcher, after losing my championship game because I was destroyed, angry, sad, stressed, but this quote was just the easiest way to describe how it felt to lose, and in some way calmed me down a lot. 

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My first reaction about finding out about covid and the way I found out was different from people in my grade. I didn’t get to find out like everyone else because I wasn’t in school for the full day. It was sometime in March, and I fractured the arch in my foot, so I was in a boot for 3-4 weeks. With being in a boot there were multiple doctor appointments and checkups so I was picked up from school early on some days. But it was never planned for that friday for me to be picked up early as I was in class learning about my new classes for 7th grade from Mrs. Stein and getting an understanding of what to expect about going into junior high. As she was just done handing out our classes, my 6th grade teacher got a call from the lower school office saying that “Vienna Bolock is being dismissed”. I just looked at her in shock and confusion because I didn’t know why I was leaving, I even questioned her why am I leaving as if she would know and repeated if they for sure said my name. I was headed downstairs and towards my mom and she just told me “I lost the keys to the house at the car dealership so I figured I would walk here to get you earlier from school and your dad is on his way to our house to pick you up and drop off the back up keys.” I was a little mad at first because I didn’t want to leave school because Mrs. Stein was explaining what we were expecting for Junior High. But eventually when I went home, about 20 minutes later after being stuck in the outside heat, my dad showed up and dropped off the keys and said to my mother and I that “school is out for the next 2 weeks because of covid.” I’m sure my reaction was just like everyone else, happy because we get a break from school, but also confused because I didn’t know what I was going to be doing for the next two weeks due to covid. In the end, I wasn’t there with all my friends to find out about it in school, but at least I got to leave school early and a few days later get my boot taken off. I’m glad I wasn’t in school when the school sent the email because I think people would have been going crazy and I didn’t want to be around that.